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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

This is an instructive moment at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where Dr. Valerie Sheares Ashby recently assumed the role of president. I left Duke University, that I loved and still love, where I have friends, colleagues, and students. The day that I left, I was no longer going to be entangled in that institution.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Carnegie Mellon University–Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, is the only American campus on the entire continent. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10. Yesterday, CMU, the Rwandan government and the MasterCard Foundation announced a “transformational” $275.7